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i would have had a great education, though, if you had kept me until the end, and i want to thank you and the ranking member for your leadership. we have appreciated it and admired it in our chamber, and also chairwoman stabenow for your effort and sustained effort in getting us to this point. i feel privileged as others have said to be part of the farm bill conference committee and join those who said this is the way we should should be doing our wn congress. this is the way we are going to be able to regain the confidence of the american people, not with the rock throwing and brick throughing and the screaming, but working together in a bipartisan, bicameral way, and that is the expectation of our farmers and ranchers. the farmers and ranchers in rural communities driving colorado's $40 billion agricultural economy, it is critical that we work through our differences to complete this process. mr. chairman, if i could sum up what i heard in the nearly 0 # listens sessions we've had all across colorado on this topic, the message is very, very simple. work together to give us the certa
i would have had a great education, though, if you had kept me until the end, and i want to thank you and the ranking member for your leadership. we have appreciated it and admired it in our chamber, and also chairwoman stabenow for your effort and sustained effort in getting us to this point. i feel privileged as others have said to be part of the farm bill conference committee and join those who said this is the way we should should be doing our wn congress. this is the way we are going to be...
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there's no direct statement about parents rights and education in this treaty. this is a legal term of art that has been used by the german high court to take parents children away from them if they homeschool them. >> this is not a german high court. this is the united states of america. the only high court i care about is the supreme court of the united states. let me ask you this finally. you quoted him as a buttress for your legal arguments and i appreciate you have an llm from london, which i understand is a distance learning course - [gavel] there are no comments permitted before the committee of approvals or disapproval's. they can ignore the declarations. as a matter fact, some of the most conservative lawyers m, sinced that, in su the early days of the nation, the president and senate have attached a variety of conditions to their consent to treaties. no one has ever invalidated these conditions. quotey, when you professor hentgen, you suggest that he would not have supported ratifying this treaty. >> he would support ratification. >> i'm glad we agree.
there's no direct statement about parents rights and education in this treaty. this is a legal term of art that has been used by the german high court to take parents children away from them if they homeschool them. >> this is not a german high court. this is the united states of america. the only high court i care about is the supreme court of the united states. let me ask you this finally. you quoted him as a buttress for your legal arguments and i appreciate you have an llm from...
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supports and defines the educational duties and the word parent is not mentioned in the educational provision of article 24 of this treaty. that standard has been applied in context, including banning homeschooling in germany, the highest court in germany has held that homeschooling is banned under the best interest of the child. the european court of human rights has upheld that dan. -- ban. our administration appealed the successful grant of asylum to the family that i represent before the supreme court. our justice department contends that germany is within its rights -- >> i have allowed you to go a minute and a half overtime. >> i am sorry. my clock is not working. thank you, senator. i will pause. >> secretary ridge. if you would put your microphone on. >> thank you. as many of you know, i have had the pleasure of wearing numerous hats in public service of our country. member of congress, governor, secretary of homeland security. i want to share with you the story of my first role, that of a united states staff sergeant in southeast asia. i had poor hearing when i went in, worse after a
supports and defines the educational duties and the word parent is not mentioned in the educational provision of article 24 of this treaty. that standard has been applied in context, including banning homeschooling in germany, the highest court in germany has held that homeschooling is banned under the best interest of the child. the european court of human rights has upheld that dan. -- ban. our administration appealed the successful grant of asylum to the family that i represent before the...
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don't, interest intense is a very real threat for crowding out both public and private investment in education r&d and infrastructure. over the last three years we've made real strides in reducing our deficit. we saved more than $12.5 billion. that's been unbalanced. about 70% has been from spending cut. 30% from revenue. we need to do more but we have do it, i believe, in a balanced way. we've heard from senators about the need to modernize the tax code and move toward real tax reform. while the committee can't get it done. we can move in that direction in a substantial way. making a modest cut of only 5% of the trillion dollars a year we spend through the tax code would make huge dent in the deficit. lastly, we have to don't make some reduction in direct spending. although i know that's the area taken the hardest hit. i'll insist on doing in a way that put a circle of production around around the most vulnerable and honoring our promises to seniors, veterans, and about to retirement to protect them from cuts. chairman rhode island i know, chairman muir ray. i'm glad we have come together. we
don't, interest intense is a very real threat for crowding out both public and private investment in education r&d and infrastructure. over the last three years we've made real strides in reducing our deficit. we saved more than $12.5 billion. that's been unbalanced. about 70% has been from spending cut. 30% from revenue. we need to do more but we have do it, i believe, in a balanced way. we've heard from senators about the need to modernize the tax code and move toward real tax reform....
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it may be fun, but if you borrow money to, you know, send a kid to school, to go to educate yourself in a way, to house your family, those are good, solid investments so if you use money now, which we've borrow at a cheap rate, and hopefully there's not another shut down or default to raise rates, which is, you know, tremendously negative impact on what ted cruz and others brought about, but if you borrow money now to rebuild the infrastructure of the country, to invest in education, invest in some, you know, basic science whether it's biomedical science or other forms of science to create jobs down the road, those are all good reasons to borrow, and so this today port impolice tick and an tag niche is fool hardy. you can't say i'm for jobs, jobs, jobs in the american economy to work. at the same time, you strangle it of funding. you know, the whole government shut down by some estimates cost 24 billion dollars in economic activity. people lost jobs, lost paychecks, with respect hired, and we're still reeling from that. >> host: on the subject of the shut down, how do you any the 201
it may be fun, but if you borrow money to, you know, send a kid to school, to go to educate yourself in a way, to house your family, those are good, solid investments so if you use money now, which we've borrow at a cheap rate, and hopefully there's not another shut down or default to raise rates, which is, you know, tremendously negative impact on what ted cruz and others brought about, but if you borrow money now to rebuild the infrastructure of the country, to invest in education, invest in...
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institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> the senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. ago, richardars streeter, a 47-year-old truck driver from oregon was frustrated and worried. as new york times columnist nicholas kristof described this weekend, mr. schrader could not find insurance in the individual market. no insurance company would cover him. he did what people locked out of the market do, he went without care. after months of ignoring care, for areeter went in colonoscopy, he could not afford one. the only one -- the only way he could get it was from a doctor who agreed to take half payment now and half when he could afford it. he had advanced: cancer -- advanced colon cancer. his doctor said this "it was heartbreaking to see the paint on his face, the real train wreck is what people are experiencing every day because they cannot afford care." mr. streeter is the second patient the doctor had put off seeing because of a lack of health insurance and now has advanced colon cancer. he has a tough road ahead of him, but
institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> the senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. ago, richardars streeter, a 47-year-old truck driver from oregon was frustrated and worried. as new york times columnist nicholas kristof described this weekend, mr. schrader could not find insurance in the individual market. no insurance company would cover him. he did what people locked out of the market do, he went without care....
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potentially you're just not able to find a good-paying full-time job, perhaps you didn't receive the education that others have received, perhaps you have got some disability, you're -- you would go under this plan on medicare -- i mean on medicaid, and then everyone in between, the lowest income and the age of 65 is in a private health care system, which is a market-based system, competition driving prices down. the idea would be that there would be 20, 30, 40 health care plans in every state offered. people can choose what they want with a minimum, bronze, silver, gold plan with lots of choice. that is the promise, that is the hope, that is the idea, and the great promise of this is that if you have cancer, you can't be dropped. if you have diabetes, you can't be turned away. so when everyone is covered, the risk has spread, the price comes down and the free market operates. now, you would never know that based on the criticism that you hear on television and radio all day long, but that's the truth. one of the important components of that bill that many of us talked about was the fact that
potentially you're just not able to find a good-paying full-time job, perhaps you didn't receive the education that others have received, perhaps you have got some disability, you're -- you would go under this plan on medicare -- i mean on medicaid, and then everyone in between, the lowest income and the age of 65 is in a private health care system, which is a market-based system, competition driving prices down. the idea would be that there would be 20, 30, 40 health care plans in every state...
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i wroild have had a great education if you had kept me to the end. >>> also, chairwoman stabino and your sustained ins for instance to be part of this. i join those who said that this is if way we should be doing our work in this congress. this is the ware that we are going to be able to regain the comforts to the american people, not guilty with the rock throwing and the where i can throughing and the screaming. the farmers and ranchers driving the cultural economy, it is critical that we work through our differences to complete this process. mr. chairman, if i could sum up what i've heard in the nearly 30 listening sessions i've had, the message is very, very simple. work fogt to give us the certainty of a five-year farm bill. we've identified priorities. we end the days, finally, of automatically issuing payments to farmers regardless of economic need. and we strengthen crop insurance to protect the farmers on eastern colorado plains that get stubbornly consistent drout cob conditions. our bill moves away from price production. our bill makes strategic investments in additional areas
i wroild have had a great education if you had kept me to the end. >>> also, chairwoman stabino and your sustained ins for instance to be part of this. i join those who said that this is if way we should be doing our work in this congress. this is the ware that we are going to be able to regain the comforts to the american people, not guilty with the rock throwing and the where i can throughing and the screaming. the farmers and ranchers driving the cultural economy, it is critical...
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expand many governor governors, they refuse to set up marketplaces and leaving millions on the table in education funding. what happens? well, for those -- here, the floor of the committee and off the floor of the house, what are you going to do about the approximately 17 million children with preexisting conditions who can no longer be denied health insurance coverage. we want to go back and want to say you are no longer covered any longer. are you going to tell the parents of those kids? which one is going to stand up and tell the parents of those children that the game is over, sorry, that was just -- >> will the gentleman yield? >> yes, i will. >> i will just tell you -- where are you? >> right here. you asked a question and i'm going to answer it. it's a false choice to say it's obama care or nothing. there are numerous proposals including one that i'm a co-sponsor of -- >> i take back the time, sir. >> let me take the time back. are you serious what you just said? are you really serious? after what we've gone through and what we've gone through in the last three and a half years? have you -
expand many governor governors, they refuse to set up marketplaces and leaving millions on the table in education funding. what happens? well, for those -- here, the floor of the committee and off the floor of the house, what are you going to do about the approximately 17 million children with preexisting conditions who can no longer be denied health insurance coverage. we want to go back and want to say you are no longer covered any longer. are you going to tell the parents of those kids?...
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and senator harkin, who chairs the health, education, and labor committee that carried this bill forward through two hearings in 2009 and 2012, who carried it forward an in markup this past yeerd and who prepared -- this past year and who prepared to send it to the floor. thank you, senator harkin, for your leadership. and for senator tammy baldwin, who came to us with her personal story and with her experience froofleadership in the house ans carried on so many individual meetings to speak to these core issues of equality and fairness and opportunity. so thank you to this bipartisan set of sponsors and thank you to everyone who last night said, "yes, we should debate this issue; we should debate this issue of discrimination blocking full opportunity for millions of americans." and so shortly we will be engaged in that debate. after the declaration of independence, we had the preamble to the constitution. and this also is well-known to americans across the land. we, the people of the united states, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, pr
and senator harkin, who chairs the health, education, and labor committee that carried this bill forward through two hearings in 2009 and 2012, who carried it forward an in markup this past yeerd and who prepared -- this past year and who prepared to send it to the floor. thank you, senator harkin, for your leadership. and for senator tammy baldwin, who came to us with her personal story and with her experience froofleadership in the house ans carried on so many individual meetings to speak to...